Just to manage expectations (and I think we've posted this a number of times now in the last few years

There
is already a Star Wars MMO that focuses primarily on these features.
We're making a different kind of game and we've been pretty open about
that from the start.


That
does not mean we are hostile to certain sandbox features such as player
built housing - it just means that these kind of features are not a
particularly high priority to us at this point as we navigate to ship.

There
will certainly be out-of-combat player activities and activities that
promote social interaction in the game, but you will not be able to take
a job as a moisture farmer on Tatooine and simulate the life of such an
individual in our game.

In short: Uncle Owen and his life is not the kind of heroic journey we're
going for with this game. (The jawa's with their rocket launchers
wouldn't make that a very fun activity anyway)."

Georg "Observer" Zoeller
Principal Lead Combat Designer

in short swtor is kinna in the middle of a sandbox and a themepark mmo ^^